Course context for academic year 2015-16

Advanced Microbiology is a complement to the general Microbiology course (taught in THE 2nd year in the Biology degree) and offers a deeper insight into Environmental and Molecular and Food Microbiology.

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2015-16

• To ascertain the role of microbes and microbial metabolism in sustaining the biosphere and the biogeochemical cycles and to analyze the microbial diversity harbored in aquatic and terrestrial environments.

• To know and apply the molecular and culture dependent techniques used to study microbes in their natural environments

• To understand the molecular bases of viruses and their interactions with their hosts

• To know genomic and metagenomic analysis techniques and their application to the study of the evolution of microbes.

• To work safely with microbes, reagents, and instruments commonly used in food microbiology and molecular microbial ecology.

• To plan, design, carry out, and analyze the results of experiments in Microbiology

Academic year:

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Departments involved

Dept:
PHYSIOLOGY, GENETICS AND MICROBIOLOGY Area:
MICROBIOLOGY Theoretical credits: 1,6Practical credits: 0,8
This Dept. is responsible for the course.
This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.